- Is water necessary?
- Use other sweeteners
- Honey
- Molasses
- Mirin
- Sorghum
- Palm sugar
- Other soda
- Mexican Coke
- Sprite
- Root beer
- Add smoked salt (reduce soy sauce?)
- Try liquid smoke
- Ghost pepper salt
- Hungarian smoked paprika
- Rice wine vinegar
- Ketchup (ketchup + rice wince vinegar for something more like an American BBQ sauce?)